Why do bad things happen to good people? PART ONE
Yesterday I introduced the series that I’ll be blogging through this week. It aims to biblically answer the question, why do bad things happen to good people? Today is part one: 1. There’s no such...
View ArticleWhy do bad things happen to good people? PART THREE
We started a series this week that aims to answer one of life’s most daunting questions. This is a kind of theodicy– an effort to give an answer to the problem of evil in our world. I named the series...
View ArticleWhy do bad things happen to good people? PART FOUR
Today we will finish the series. Some of you have made it to the final point! Good job– there’s not a great market for theology these days. But I write this because I strongly believe that theology is...
View ArticleWar Buddies
“For me…to die is gain” I wonder if Paul in his conversations with Peter in Jerusalem had talked about dying? I wonder if Peter told him about that experience recorded in John 21 when Jesus, after his...
View ArticleAre you a suffering Christian?
“In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith– more precious than gold that perishes though it...
View ArticleWhy you’re suffering
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it...
View ArticleSome words to a scared, dying man
Clement Read Vaughan, writing to his old friend who was about to die and fearing death, wondering if he’d have enough faith to die well. He gave the metaphor of a traveler coming to a chasm over which...
View ArticleTyson Larson: One year later
Sometimes writing is therapeutic for me. So last June I wrote some blogs about Tyson’s death and the surrounding events. Out of all the posts I’ve written, these are still the most read posts– even a...
View ArticleGo to Jesus and count the cost
Go to Jesus and find him to be everything you’ve ever needed. And as you go to him, count the cost. For some of you, in the moment of conversion, counting the cost is a quick and easy thing. In …...
View ArticleIf you could see God’s secret counsel
“If you could see how God in his secret counsel has exactly laid the whole plan of your salvation, even to the smallest means and circumstances; could you but discern the admirable harmony of divine...
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